Billie Eilish has had enough of people pretending to be her in public.
On Thursday, the singer posted screenshots on Instagram of a video featuring an Eilish impersonator, asking people to “please stop doing this s—.”
“It is not safe for you and it is mean to the people who don’t know any better you make me look bad,” Eilish continued.
Eilish, who won five Grammys on Sunday, quickly posted a second screenshot, zooming in on the socks of her impersonator.
“Also soooo disrespectful that you’d go out pretending to be me in THIS,” she wrote, followed by a pair of laughing emojis.
The YouTuber behind the video, Jordan Matter, responded to the controversy with an Instagram post on Thursday.
“You’ve been commenting on the video shoot I did yesterday, and I’d like to respond. I gathered a crowd and had an acrobat pretending to be Billie do a huge cheer flip, which revealed it was not Billie,” Matter wrote.
“I had absolutely no intention of disrespecting Billie. I’m a big fan, like everyone else. I’ve never done a celebrity impersonation video before, but they’re pretty common so I thought it would be fun to add my own acrobatic twist. I felt it was completely harmless since at no time in the video are we pretending that she is actually Billie.”
Matter said he had also reached out directly to Eilish and apologized and wrote that he would not post the video, which he deleted, again without her permission.
